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Tuesday, 21 November 2017

#259 'Golden Cap Looking West' 8x10"

I have just had a week in Dorset painting the local area of Bridport, Charmouth & Lyme Regis all on the Jurassic Coast.I was lucky with the weather, it didn't rain once! and had some great sunsets and rises.I have about 10 paintings to post from the trip and will do 2-3 a day.On the first day I arrived to catch the sunset, and was really pleased to find this view at the end of the caravan park I was staying in - dramatic cliffs with great shapes. I started to paint late afternoon and had 3/4 of the painting down when the sunset lit the sky, it was beautiful. I tried putting in the colourful sky but it didn't fit the rest of the painting and I would have had to repaint the lot to match, I decided to keep it how it was. Sometimes you can't chase the light!

1 comment:

Interesting how different the scene was that you painted to the subsequent view. I like the bold strokes on the cliffs, very dramatic and the captured luminescence of the sea even before it shone pink. A real sense of perspective and distance with the tiny people on the beach.